Schools after the surge: Swamped by migrant kids, Miami-Dade district seeks more funding

*The second of a four part series by Fox News Latino about how some schools and school districts are coping with the sudden increase in students due to the surge of unaccompanied child immigratns of the past summer. The surge raised deep questions about immigration, education, the idea of who we are as Americans and what that idea means today. Those questions are as timely today as they were in the summer of 2014. VL

By Soni Sangha, Fox News Latino

Early in the 2014-15 school year, when it was clear that a surprising number of immigrant children would enroll in U.S. schools due to the surge of unaccompanied minors who crossed the southern border over the summer, many were left wondering: Could our school districts handle the cost and the needs associated with this population segment?

The answer is not straightforward. The districts into which these students have enrolled differ demographically, politically and financially. Part 1 of this series looked at New York and North Carolina, now let’s see what’s been happening further south.

Florida received the fourth-largest number of unaccompanied minors that crossed the southern border during the summer of 2014.

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